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Investing in March, you either love it or hate it

With a volital history of highs and lows in the month of March, USA TODAY's John Waggoner tells us what to expect this year where when the Nasdaq composite finally broke back above 5000 after 15 years.

An Iowa boy called the editor at the Herald Times to complain about the changes to the paper's Sunday comics section and left a curse-laden voicemail that's funnier than Garfield ever could be. Mara Montalbano (@maramontalbano) has the story.

Painter Nelson Shanks, the artist who created the 2005 portrait of former President Bill Clinton hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., says he included a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the painting. Jen Markham (